It was 16 minutes of some of the best basketball the Muskie junior girls’ squad had played all season. Now, about that first 16 . . . “Everything they shot was going in and everything we shot didn’t,” summarized first-year guard Mackenzie Caul after the Muskies’ 54-29 loss to the […]
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While she may have captured just 12.6 percent of the votes in Kenora-Rainy River riding in last Thursday’s provincial election, Progressive Conservative candidate Cathe Hoszowski said she hasn’t been discouraged into bowing out of the political arena. “I’m still very interested in politics,” she stressed in an interview yesterday. “When […]
Take 309 public school students from across the district, turn them loose in the fields and bush around Devlin, and what do you get? Sometimes some remarkable achievements. That certainly was the case when the Rainy River District Athletic Association held its annual cross-country championships at Crossroads School last Thursday. […]
The Emo Toy Library Resource Centre is looking eagerly towards its fall carnival coming up Saturday, Oct. 25 from 1-3 p.m. at the Emo Legion. Special guests will be the Borderland Community Orchestra. The theme will be Hallowe’en, of course, and everyone is invited to hear great music (the orchestra […]
Some 160 anxious anglers will be hoping Lady Luck is on their side tonight when the random draw for the final 40 berths in the 10th-annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship next July is held at La Place Rendez-Vous. That’s a record number of entrants in the draw—smashing the previous […]
Somebody must be doing something right because in sharp contrast to the previous week, sunny skies and almost summer-like conditions were the order of the day Sunday when the Rainy River Federation of Agriculture held its “On the Road Again” bus tour. Sixty-two people—mostly moms and kids—piled into two buses […]
The public got a chance to hear what eight of the 11 people vying for seats on town council next month had to say Monday night at the Civic Centre when they answered the question: “As councillor for the Town of Fort Frances, what is your vision of economic prosperity […]
Customer Appreciation Days last Friday and Saturday in Emo was a first-time venture. Friday was dull and gloomy, but Mother Nature smiled down on the proceedings taking place at every business sector on Saturday. In visiting different business locations, it was busy as a beehive, people browsed around and purchased. […]
In a last-minute attachment to the agenda of the Rainy River District School Board’s regular monthly meeting here Tuesday night, the board announced it had reached an agreement to extend its lease with Confederation College. “We have successfully completed our negotiations regarding the lease with Confederation College,” reported Laura Mills, […]
Camille Villeneuve never met a curling rink he didn’t like. The 75-year-old Chicoutimi, Que. resident will bring his road show to the Fort Frances Curling Club this Saturday (Oct. 11) at 2 p.m. for an exhibition match against local curlers as he brushes his way towards a spot in the […]
The 15-tonne weight restriction in effect for the bridge at Sioux Narrows not only has created headaches for district businesses and farmers that depend on trucks to deliver their goods, it also raises some troubling questions for the Ministry of Transportation. For instance, what is to become of the old […]
The party atmosphere slowly building at La Place Rendez-Vous here last Thursday night as NDP supporters awaited election results quickly was replaced by the quiet murmur of people asking “what went wrong” as the tallies became known. And while a cheer erupted when it was projected that local MPP and […]
